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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Arab Gulf States Close Doors to Syrian Refugees - Raheem Kassam

by Raheem Kassam

But while the United Nations lumps the responsibility onto the West,
you might ask why countries like Saudi Arabia, which claims to have
absorbed around half a million Syrians, do not provide any data to support their statements.

Originally published under the title "Gulf Countries Have
'Closed The Doors' To Syria's Real Refugees – So Now UN Chief Ban Ki
Moon Is Lecturing Britain And America."

In this cartoon from the Saudi daily Makkah,
a man in Arab Gulf attire points a refugee to a door with an EU flag,
shouting, "Why don't you let them in, you discourteous people?!"

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has surfaced, once again to
lecture the Anglosphere and the Western world about its "duties" to
hurriedly absorb nearly half a million more Syrian migrants. The
war-torn country's surrounding nations, he argues, have done the heavy
lifting already. Now the U.N. chief wants you and your communities to do
more.

There is a misconception that all Syria's neighbours have shrugged their shoulders towards their Muslim brethren, scorning the Ummah
out of rugged self interest. It's not strictly true.

But the dichotomy
presented – that it is us or them – is a false one, and one that
European and American leaders should not be afraid to reject outright.

The New York Timesreports
that the Sec. General opened a conference in Geneva today, demanding
"an exponential increase in global solidarity", insisting that
"Neighboring countries have done far more than their share" and
imploring "Others [to] now step up." And, of course, the stress was on
European Union member states and the United States of America to do
more.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wants the West to absorb nearly half a million more Syrian migrants.

The news follows quickly on the heels of Oxfam – one of the world's most political charities – demanding that France, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark all take in more "refugees" and faster.

Of course, of the nearly 5 million fleeing Syria, most remain in the
Middle East, with countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan
inundated by refugees. In part, this is what has spurred Turkey on to
shipping their problems off into Europe – especially the Kurdish one.

It is noteworthy too, that Oxfam and Ban Ki Moon's criticisms were
levelled at Western nations not because we have the infrastructure or
capability to deal with the influx (we don't) – but because we are,
apparently, "rich". (We'll just casually ignore our gargantuan debt
crisis for the moment, shall we?)

But while the United Nations lumps the responsibility onto the West,
you might ask why countries like Saudi Arabia, which claims to have
absorbed around half a million Syrians, do not provide any data to support their statements.
Indeed, in 2013, net migration of those deemed to be Syrian nationals
stood at around just 20,000, with criticism aimed at the country for
only accepting Syrians who already have families in the Kingdom.

In fact countries that could take more, and haven't remain free of
criticism, presumably because they aren't signatories to the 1951 UN
Refugee Convention. This isn't a sign that we are better. It's a sign
that we are dumber. We as Western nations afford moral and political
equivalence for almost all other countries around the world nowadays
(most recently, Cuba and Iran) but we don't make the same demands of
these countries as we place upon ourselves.

What about Malaysia? Why can't they take more migrants and refugees?

Indonesia? India? China? Argentina?

Has Ban Ki Moon lobbied his home nation, South Korea?

It's almost as if there's a whole world out there.

But the onus is, apparently, on Britain, France, and America. We are
destined to follow Germany's lead, a country now inundated with migrants
not just from Syria, because Mrs. Merkel stupidly threw her doors open
and declared, "Come one, come all!"

Perhaps we should look to the words of Batal, a Syrian refugee who spoke to Bloomberg,
for why the pressure is being placed on Western countries and the
Anglosphere: "In Europe, I can get treatment for my polio, educate my
children, have shelter and live an honorable life... Gulf countries have
closed their doors in the face of Syrians."

Raheem Kassam is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of Breitbart London. Source: http://www.meforum.org/5938/arab-gulf-closes-doors-to-syrian-refugees Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.